The Nature of Time
Author:   Raymond Flood (Oxford University) ,  Michael Lockwood
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780631165781


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   30 January 1989
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Raymond Flood (Oxford University) ,  Michael Lockwood
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9780631165781


ISBN 10:   0631165789
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   30 January 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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The Contributors vii 1 Introduction 1 2 Time 'Paradoxes' in Relativity 6 3 Space, Time and Space--Time: A Philosopher's View 22 4 Big Bangs, Black Holes and 'Time's Arrow' 36 5 Time and Cosmology 63 6 Time and Dispersal: The Second Law 80 7 Time Asymmetry and Quantum Mechanics 99 8 The Open Future 125 9 Causal Loops 135 Glossary 170 Bibliography 180 Index 183

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Raymond Flood is Emeritus Fellow and a member of the Continuing Education Department at Kellogg College, Oxford, and has been a Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. Michael Lockwood is an editor of The Nature of Time published by Wiley.

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